DAN BROWNING and PAUL MCENROE Minneapolis Star Tribune staff writers A former director of the Minneapolis FBI office sent a letter this week to members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee denouncing B. Todd Jones’ performance as U.S. attorney in Minnesota as they prepare to consider his nomination to director of the U.S. Bureau…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com David B. Barlow, who has served as General Counsel and Chief Counsel for Judiciary for Senator Michael S. Lee since January, has been nominated by the White House to become the U.S. Attorney for Utah. The announcement on Tuesday comes a days after the FBI announced that David J. Johnson would…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Summer is long gone, but get ready for some serious grilling — Washington style. Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled Wednesday morning to go before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the “Oversight of the Department of Justice” and get grilled on such subjects as Fort Hood and the…
